SAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 45 44
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +46
Contract jobs citing SAP 91 78 94
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.90% 4.61% 4.36%
As % of the Vendors category 9.51% 10.17% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 35 74
10th Percentile £407 £378 £430
25th Percentile £525 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.14% -12.50% +4.80%
75th Percentile £725 £625 £719
90th Percentile £853 £753 £846
Central London median daily rate £589 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +12.14% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Central London median hourly rate £58.92 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.73% - -

All Vendors
City of London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 957 767 930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.00% 45.33% 43.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 465 684
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £564
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -2.44% -1.96%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £756 £798
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 6
10th Percentile - £22.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.25 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +56.96% -5.95%
75th Percentile £24.22 £53.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.70 £100.00 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £20.88 £29.07 £19.75
% change year-on-year -28.16% +47.19% -14.13%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.10%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.10%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 29 (31.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.59%) SAP ERP
3 5 (5.49%) SAP HCM
4 3 (3.30%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (3.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (3.30%) SAP EWM
4 3 (3.30%) SAP MM
5 2 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (2.20%) iTrent
5 2 (2.20%) NetSuite
5 2 (2.20%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (2.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (2.20%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (2.20%) SAP BRIM
5 2 (2.20%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (1.10%) SAP FI-AR
6 1 (1.10%) SAP GRC
6 1 (1.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (1.10%) SAP PM
6 1 (1.10%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.09%) SuccessFactors
2 6 (6.59%) Azure
3 5 (5.49%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.40%) AWS
4 4 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.30%) OCI
5 3 (3.30%) Serverless
6 2 (2.20%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.20%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.20%) Boomi
6 2 (2.20%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.20%) GitHub
6 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.20%) Textract
7 1 (1.10%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.30%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (3.30%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (3.30%) Power BI
3 2 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.20%) CockroachDB
3 2 (2.20%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.20%) Metadata
3 2 (2.20%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.10%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.10%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.10%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) JIRA
2 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.10%) Postman
2 1 (1.10%) Selenium
2 1 (1.10%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.10%) TestRail
2 1 (1.10%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (30.77%) Finance
2 19 (20.88%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.69%) Billing
5 5 (5.49%) Banking
6 4 (4.40%) Law
6 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.30%) General Ledger
7 3 (3.30%) Legal
7 3 (3.30%) Local Government
8 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Retail
8 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (20.88%) Architect
2 14 (15.38%) Consultant
3 13 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (12.09%) SAP Consultant
5 9 (9.89%) Analyst
6 8 (8.79%) Lead
6 8 (8.79%) Project Manager
7 6 (6.59%) SAP Manager
8 5 (5.49%) Functional Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) SAP Functional Consultant
9 4 (4.40%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) SAP Architect
9 4 (4.40%) SAP Project Manager
10 3 (3.30%) Business Analyst
10 3 (3.30%) Oracle Consultant
10 3 (3.30%) Report Analyst
10 3 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
10 3 (3.30%) Senior
10 3 (3.30%) Transformation Analyst
11 2 (2.20%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.09%) Middleware
1 11 (12.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (5.49%) XML
3 4 (4.40%) JSON
4 3 (3.30%) REST
4 3 (3.30%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (2.20%) boto
5 2 (2.20%) EDI
5 2 (2.20%) IDoc
5 2 (2.20%) NumPy
5 2 (2.20%) OAuth
5 2 (2.20%) Pandas
6 1 (1.10%) .NET
6 1 (1.10%) HTML
6 1 (1.10%) J2EE
6 1 (1.10%) JDBC
6 1 (1.10%) LDAP
6 1 (1.10%) SAML
6 1 (1.10%) SOAP
6 1 (1.10%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.49%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.30%) FMCG
5 2 (2.20%) IoT
5 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.10%) Life Science
6 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.10%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.16%) ERP
2 30 (32.97%) Migration
3 19 (20.88%) Data Migration
4 15 (16.48%) User Acceptance Testing
5 14 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (9.89%) ETL
6 9 (9.89%) Integration Patterns
6 9 (9.89%) Roadmaps
6 9 (9.89%) Validation
7 8 (8.79%) Data Modelling
7 8 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (7.69%) Data Governance
8 7 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (7.69%) Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (7.69%) Project Management
8 7 (7.69%) Risk Management
8 7 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
9 6 (6.59%) Event-Driven
9 6 (6.59%) Project Delivery
9 6 (6.59%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.99%) SQL
2 4 (4.40%) Python
3 3 (3.30%) ABAP
4 2 (2.20%) C#
4 2 (2.20%) Java
5 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.10%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (5.49%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.30%) PMP
2 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) Degree
3 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.10%) CIPD
4 1 (1.10%) CISM
4 1 (1.10%) CISSP
4 1 (1.10%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.09%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.59%) GDPR
2 6 (6.59%) QA
3 4 (4.40%) GAAP
3 4 (4.40%) PMO
4 2 (2.20%) GRC
4 2 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.10%) Basel III
5 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.10%) IFRS
5 1 (1.10%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.10%) IAG
Vendors
1 25 (27.47%) Oracle
2 12 (13.19%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.79%) Workday
4 6 (6.59%) Ariba
5 3 (3.30%) Informatica
5 3 (3.30%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.10%) Concur
7 1 (1.10%) Databricks
7 1 (1.10%) ESRI
7 1 (1.10%) Kronos
7 1 (1.10%) OpenText
7 1 (1.10%) Planon
7 1 (1.10%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.10%) Talend